Faculty-Student Teams Invited to Participate in Workshop Series/Small Grant Program
The Center for Service and Community Engagement seeks faculty and students (teams of two) to participate in a spring workshop series on community-engaged scholarship.
The workshop series will provide an overview of community-engaged scholarship and its overlap with Catholic, Jesuit identity. Following an introduction of key concepts, the workshops will focus on the topics of asset-based research partnerships, effective assessment and advocacy, and communication.
Each workshop will be accompanied by a luncheon with partnering organizations from the community who will share their goals and opportunities for collaboration. The invited community organizations will be topically focused based on their areas of outreach, such as positive youth development, employment training, and health and wellbeing.
Seed funding – up to five $1,000 small grants – will be offered to faculty-student partners who attend a minimum of two workshops and two luncheons and submit a proposal to work with one (or more) of the invited community organizations. Participation in the series will be limited to 20 people, or 10 faculty-student partnerships.
Objectives
- To build faculty and student scholarly partnerships, with emphasis on undergraduate students.
- To develop community-based projects and enhance University-community relations.
- To provide guidance of “best practices” and resources, including seed funding, for community-engaged scholarship.
- To increase awareness and participation in the Center for Service and Community and the North St. Louis Symposium, as a growing network of SLU scholars committed to “being advocates for St. Louis.”
Process
- Three 90-minute workshops will take place during the spring semester from 4 to 5:30
p.m., in the Center for Global Citizenship, Suite 124, Seminar Room.
- Thursday, March 2
- Thursday, March 30
- Wednesday, April 26
- Community organizations and workshop participants will be invited to participate in
three luncheons from noon to 1:30 p.m., in the Center for Global Citizenship, Suite
124, Seminar Room.
- Monday, Feb. 27
- Tuesday, March 28
- Monday, April 24
- Upon conclusion of the workshops, participants will be able to submit a short grant proposal, requesting funds for a collaborative effort. Funding proposals should be submitted by May 22, 2017. Funds will be available for the 2017-18 fiscal year.
Registration
Sign up early, as space is limited. Faculty representation from across the disciplines
is needed. Register here.
Interested participants will be notified of acceptance by Feb. 10, at the latest.
For more information about the workshop series, or to suggest community partners, contact Bryan Sokol (977-3929 or bsokol1@slu.edu) or Leah Sweetman (977-4214 or sweetman@slu.edu) in the Center for Service and Community Engagement.
Sponsors
The program is sponsored by Saint Louis University’s Center for Service and Community Engagement, the Office of Mission and Identity, the Office of Diversity and Community Engagement and the Office of Faculty Affairs and Development.